Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Before you enter your "Promised Land"...

Good Morning Dear Friends-
Today I was blessed with a Word in season for so many on this list.

As we leave our wilderness experiences and enter the Promised Land of new jobs, marriages, and new businesses, pause and remember the good that God has done for us while we were in the desert.
As we prepare to enter the "land of milk and honey" (as described in the following scripture), we stand at the crossroads of our blessings and curses. Don't lose sight of God when your prayers are answered. Remember the rules of holiness and worship required God's favor in our lives. Holiness means that we must remain separate from those things that are evil, deviant and unclean and that our thoughts, actions, and speech represent God.

Will we be perfect? No, we can never be. However, this scripture is a reminder that we should willfully avoid activities that spearate us from God. For some people, when the "hard times" are over, and things are good, we forget all about God's faithfulness to us. We forget the nights we cried out to Him for help. We don't always want to remember relying on Him because we had nothing else (or no one else).

As we stand at the door of answered prayer, make a pledge to keep God first by worshipping him in the Promised Land. Maintain the rules with the same vigilance that you had when you were trying to escape your desert experience.

Stay on the road of blessings and favor!
K.

Duetoronomy 11

22 -25 That's right. If you diligently keep all this commandment that I command you to obey—love God, your God, do what he tells you, stick close to him—God on his part will drive out all these nations that stand in your way. Yes, he'll drive out nations much bigger and stronger than you. Every square inch on which you place your foot will be yours. Your borders will stretch from the wilderness to the mountains of Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand in your way. Everywhere you go, God-sent fear and trembling will precede you, just as he promised.

26 I've brought you today to the crossroads of Blessing and Curse.

27 The Blessing: if you listen obediently to the commandments of God, your God, which I command you today.

28 The Curse: if you don't pay attention to the commandments of God, your God, but leave the road that I command you today, following other gods of which you know nothing.

29 -30 Here's what comes next: When God, your God, brings you into the land you are going into to make your own, you are to give out the Blessing from Mount Gerizim and the Curse from Mount Ebal. After you cross the Jordan River, follow the road to the west through Canaanite settlements in the valley near Gilgal and the Oaks of Moreh.

31 -32 You are crossing the Jordan River to invade and take the land that God, your God, is giving you. Be vigilant. Observe all the regulations and rules I am setting before you today.


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